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Science and the Future
The book is an early vision of transhumanism [2] and his vision of a future in which humans controlled their own evolution through directed mutation and use of in vitro fertilization ("ectogenesis") was a major influence on Aldus Huxley's Brave New World. The book ends with the image of a biologist, much like Haldane himself, in a laboratory: "just a poor little scrubby underpaid man groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultramicroscop...conscious of his ghastly mission and proud of it."
The book has been discussed at length by other writers, including Freeman Dyson in his book "Imagined Worlds", "Science, Society, and Values" by Sal. P. Restivo [3] and the conceit has been used in contemporary science lectures [4].